| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | Art |
| Office: | AB 102 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2096 |
| Email: | S.BASKIND@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://academic.csuohio.edu/baskind_s/ |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. AB 102, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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Ph.D., Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
M.A., Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 B.A., Art History and English, University of Pennsylvania, 1992 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Samantha Baskind has taught at CSU since August 2004, before which she taught at the University of Miami (where she held a joint appointment in art history and Judaic studies), James Madison University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Her courses include Twentieth-Century Art and American Art from Colonial Times to the Present, and her most recent seminar was Jewish American Art and Culture.
Her research focuses on twentieth-century American art and culture and the role of the Jewish American artist in the modern world. Presentations on these subjects have been made at the annual conferences of the College Art Association, Association for Jewish Studies, American Culture Association, Southeastern College Art Association, World Congress of Jewish Studies (in Israel), American Academy of Religion, and Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Her book, Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004), was funded by grants from the Terra Foundation for the Arts and American Council of Learned Societies, the Jewish Historical Society of New York, and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, in addition to receiving a Koret Jewish Studies Publications Program award. She is sole author of Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (Greenwood Press, 2007), a 2006-7 College and Research Libraries selected reference work. A co-edited volume with Ranen Omer-Sherman, The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, came out in 2008, and she is currently co-authoring Modern/Jewish/Artists with Larry Silver (forthcoming Reaktion Books, 2011). Recent articles have appeared in American Art, Steinbeck Studies, Jewish Social Studies, and Art Criticism, among other venues. During academic year 2009-10 she is on leave with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to finish her current book project, Reimagining the Book: Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America. Dr. Baskind's biography has appeared in the 2007- 2009 editions of Who's Who in America. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| -National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2009-10)
-Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grant (2008) -Biography in Who's Who in America (2007, 2008, 2009) -Cleveland State University Faculty Research Development Award (2007-9) -Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists, a College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Work, 2006-7 (September 2007) -Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, publication subvention, The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (September 2007) -Cleveland State University Merit Recognition Award for research over the years 2004-7 (2007) -Society for the Preservation of American Modernists fellowship (Summer 2005) -Cleveland State University Merit Recognition Award for research over the years 2001-4 (2005) -Cleveland State University Graduate Faculty Travel Award (Summer 2005) -Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture fellowship (Summer 2004) -Koret Jewish Studies Publications Program Award for Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (July 2003) -Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, publication subvention for color plates, Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (December 2002) -Visiting Fellow, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami (2002-03) -American Council of Learned Societies/Terra Foundation for the Arts Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (2000-01) -UNC Art Department Non-Service Dissertation Grant (1999-2000) -UNC Graduate School Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship (Spring 1999) -Malcolm H. Stern Dissertation Fellowship, Jewish Historical Society of New York (Fall 1998) -UNC Graduate School Educational Enhancement Award (Spring 1997) -Full tuition and stipend fellowship, UNC Art Department (1994-2000) | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| -American Academy of Religion
-Association of Historians of American Art -Association for Jewish Studies -College Art Association | ||